US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Sept. 22 for "Method for operating a vehicle and vehicle operated by such a method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,526, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for operating a vehicle and vehicle operated by such a method" was invented by Philemon Chavrier (Lyons, France), Olivier Poussin (Lyons, France), Cedric Mazaufroy (Miribel, France) and Sebastien Pesenti (Saint Priest, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine, a wheel propulsion shaft, wheels and a kinetic energy recovery system configured to recover and store kinetic energy of the vehicle, and restore the stored energy by propelling the wheel propulsion shaft and/or by cranking the internal combust...